Fisheries (Tagging and Logbook) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2001 (S.R. No. 291 of 2001).

These Byelaws: (a) require every person who is licensed pursuant to byelaws made under the Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 to fish for wild salmon and sea trout to affix a gill tag to every wild salmon or sea trout captured and retained by him (Byelaw 3); (b) provide for the issue of gill tags to such persons (Byelaw 4); (c) provide for the removal of a tag which is affixed to a wild salmon or sea trout only in specified circumstances (Byelaw 5(1)(a) and (5)); (d) prohibit the affixing of a tag to any wild salmon or sea trout which has been unlawfully captured (Byelaw 5(1)(b)); (e) prohibit the sale, export or transhipment at sea of any wild salmon or sea trout which has not had a tag affixed to it (Byelaw 5(1)(c)); (f) prohibit the possession of any captured and retained wild salmon or sea trout which does not have a tag affixed to it (Byelaw 5(1)(d)); (g) prohibit the sale of wild salmon or sea trout as being farmed salmon or sea trout (Byelaw 5(1)(f)); (h) prohibit the importation of a wild salmon or sea trout into Northern Ireland for the purpose of sale unless a tail tag is affixed to that salmon or sea trout (Byelaw 5(1)(h)); (i) provide for the keeping of logbooks by the holders of fishing licences issued under the Act and the issue and return of such logbooks (Byelaws 6, 7 and 8); and regulate some other matters relating to use of tags.